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Astropoetics

Astropoetics is a useful language to explore our relation to the cosmic order, the world soul and our deepest sense of self.

The Astropoetic SchoolThe soul can be observed in relation to its movement through various cycles, which wax and wane in predictable rhythm, and are mirrored in the cosmic patterns that coalesce and disperse in the sky. The mystery of soul is best approached through a language that is poetic in its use of words. A poetic language conducts its quest for the truth obliquely – through simile and metaphor, image and symbol, suggestion and allusion, rather than direct, dogmatic statement of fact.

When astrology is approached poetically – as an intuitive contemplation of imagery and symbolism, rather than as an analytical interpretative system – it becomes a potent language of soul that allows for the possibility of deep and penetrating self-discovery.

Over the past 40+ years, Joe Landwehr – founder of The Astropoetic School of Soul-Discovery and co-founder of Yggdrasil – has been developing astropoetics as a coherent language of soul that addresses all four of Yggdrasil’s soul tasks. Astropoetics

  • can be used to discover and become more conscious of sacred wounds, as well as to derive strategies for tending them more consciously.
  • reveals how sacred wounds are related to the gifts and strengths in which a growing sense of visionary calling may be rooted.
  • shows the patterns of connection between dimensions of the psyche that can serve as the basis for internal dialogue, as well as external dialogue with other humans or with the more-than-human world.
  • provides transparent access to the mythopoetic realm through planetary associations with the gods and goddesses of the Greek pantheon.

You can read more about astropoetics on Joe’s Astropoetic School website and/or the website for his publishing company, Ancient Tower Press.

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